It Is Of Itself That

Man Is The Metre Of All Things, The Hand Is The Instrument Of Instruments, And The Mind Is The Form Of Forms.

Those Who Merely Possess The Goods Of Fortune May Be Haughty And Insolent; . . . They Try To Imitate The Great-souled Man Without Being Really Like Him, And Only Copy Him In What They Can, Reproducing His Contempt For Others But Not His Virtuous Conduct. For The Great-souled Man Is Justified In Despising Other People - His Estimates Are Correct; But Most Proud Men Have No Good Ground For Their Pride.

The Only Stable State Is The One In Which All Men Are Equal Before The Law.

The One Exclusive Sign Of Thorough Knowledge Is The Power Of Teaching.

The Same Ideas, One Must Believe, Recur In Men's Minds Not Once Or Twice But Again And Again.